RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This biography of Peter Paul Rubens, written by German art historian Hermann Knackfuss, is considered to be the most authoritative text on the artist since its publication. |
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Page 6
... letters of sym- pathy and consolation . have come down to us , addressed by her to her imprisoned hus- band , bearing ... letter , still give me hope . . . . I cannot believe that we shall be so completely and so miserably separated ...
... letters of sym- pathy and consolation . have come down to us , addressed by her to her imprisoned hus- band , bearing ... letter , still give me hope . . . . I cannot believe that we shall be so completely and so miserably separated ...
Page 8
... letter runs thus : " Now I re- commend you to the Lord , for I can write no more , and I beg of you , not to anticipate the worst : for that will any- how come soon enough . To be always thinking of death and dreading death is worse ...
... letter runs thus : " Now I re- commend you to the Lord , for I can write no more , and I beg of you , not to anticipate the worst : for that will any- how come soon enough . To be always thinking of death and dreading death is worse ...
Page 56
... letter pre- served at the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp , wherein Balthasar Mo- retus states that Rubens makes ... letters dating from the year 1618 , a great number of which have been published , are invaluable for the com ...
... letter pre- served at the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp , wherein Balthasar Mo- retus states that Rubens makes ... letters dating from the year 1618 , a great number of which have been published , are invaluable for the com ...
Page 58
... letter , in which he consents to this proposition that he had that year spent several thousand florins on his house and that consequently would have much preferred to pay entirely with pictures ; " since everyone is more liberal with ...
... letter , in which he consents to this proposition that he had that year spent several thousand florins on his house and that consequently would have much preferred to pay entirely with pictures ; " since everyone is more liberal with ...
Page 91
... letter from him , addressed to Paris . It is without date , so that we do not know whether it refers to his first visit there , or to a second , which he undertook in order to finish the paintings : or perhaps to a subsequent stay in ...
... letter from him , addressed to Paris . It is without date , so that we do not know whether it refers to his first visit there , or to a second , which he undertook in order to finish the paintings : or perhaps to a subsequent stay in ...
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